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Erziehung vor Verdun(1973)
Status: Released
Date: 1973-11-25
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Time: 4h 24m
Overview:
The armouring soldier and writer Werner Bertin is ordered to the Western Front to France during the First World War. The use before Verdun - with all the horrors of war in the period 1916/1917 - brings a fundamental change of consciousness for the academic from Berlin. The intellectual devoted to bravery by fate develops into a disappointed but rebellious being. He sees more and more the injustices of warlike conflicts and their social causes.
Languages: English, French, German.
Countries:
East Germany,
Germany
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Movie: Erziehung vor Verdun
Top 10 Billed Cast
Klaus Piontek
Werner Bertin
Milan Neděla
Hauptmann Niggel
Dietmar Richter-Reinick
Wilhelm Pahl
Jürgen Hentsch
Karl Lebede
Carl Heinz Choynski
Unteroffizier Glinski
Uwe Kockisch
Christoph Kroysing
Klaus-Peter Thiele
Leutnant Mettner
Klaus Manchen
Pater Lochner
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The armouring soldier and writer Werner Bertin is ordered to the Western Front to France during the First World War. The use before Verdun - with all the horrors of war in the period 1916/1917 - brings a fundamental change of consciousness for the academic from Berlin. The intellectual devoted to bravery by fate develops into a disappointed but rebellious being. He sees more and more the injustices of warlike conflicts and their social causes.
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1973-11-25
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